Dr Sue Charitable Foundation Donates to Jamaica Hi-5K Run/Walk Adopt-a-Clinic initiative
Friends of the Dr Sue Charitable Foundation not only turned out as a team to support the Hi5 – 5K walk, they poured out additional donations and was able to present a check for $1750 to The Jamaican Consul General to Miami, R. Oliver Mair, organizer of this event. This Hi-5K Run/Walk is designed to […]
“Addy” Chin-Ogilvie Makes History As First Jamaican Woman To Qualify For Aquathlon World Championships
Jamaican Adrienne “Addy” Chin-Ogilvie, a strong proponent of swimming as a sport, has become the first Jamaican woman to qualify to compete in the Aquathlon World Championships. She announced her history-making achievement on her Facebook page, posting, “I am officially registered to represent Jamaica, Aquathlon World Championships, Slovakia, August 18-22. Thank you Jamaica Triathlon Association […]
Dr. Olive Lewin OM (1927-2013) – Saluting 60 Jamaican Women Pioneers
“I just want to be remembered simply as one was true to her roots.” She was born in Vere, in the parish of Clarendon. The story is told that, as a little girl, she spent her young days making any type of music she could come up with – singing, clapping, praying. She became so […]
Claude McKay, Jamaica – Caribbean-American Man of Influence
Claude McKay was born in Clarendon, Jamaica in 1889 and migrated to the United States in 1912 to attend Tuskegee Institute. Unhappy with what he said was the school’s “semi-military, machine-like existence,” he left to attend Kansas State University, where his first reading of W.E.B. DuBois “Souls of Black Folk” inspired him to political action. […]
Mahadai Das, Guyana – Caribbean Woman of Influence
Guyanese poet Mahadai Das was born in Eccles, East Bank Demerara, Guyana in 1954. She began writing poetry while a student at The Bishops’ High School in Georgetown. She earned a degree from the University of Guyana and then a BA in philosophy at New York’s Columbia University. While she started a Ph.D. program in […]
